Various events are taking place in and around Suna at this time.
A new Kazekage has been chosen, the Nanadaime, Takaharu Chusaki. The village is preparing for his swearing in ceremony and invitations have been sent out to all of Suna's allies to come attend the associated festival. However, it seems that word of this event has reached the ears of Akatsuki.
A delegation from Kirigakure arrived, none other than the head of the Seven Swordsmen of Mist, and head of the Kaguya Ichizoku, Kaguya Mioku. He is accompanied by fellow clansman Kaguya Gin and fifth seat "Newbie" to the SSM and visiting litter bug, Hōzuki Rin. They held a successful meeting with the new Kazekage elect at the local Osa's Underground Sake House.
Noted guests have been arriving sporadically for the event or are still in transit across the sand seas which surround the village. Of these Anti-Hinata Kitty-sama, from the noted Heartless Clan, Demon King ハザマ AKA Godaime Otokage Hazama, as well as Royal Guard Ace with his guests Neji and Gold Chocobo and personal guards have all arrived safely in anticipation of the festival within the past 24 days.
Additionally, and perhaps coincidentally, another Otogakure citizen in sojourning in Suna; one Gozu. He is reported to be training in the secret sand techniques of the village.
Those who yet remain in transit include two delegates from Kusagakure and are wending their way post haste across the sands toward Suna's walls: the Sandaime Kusakage, Kusa no Kōrimizu Hotaru and her companion Kura, the Medical-Nin Commander to Kusagakure. One other scuttles across the sands for deeds of certain darkness yet to be revealed, 無人 Mushizō, the bug man and |亥| Gai to The Akatsuki.
During all this time events out on the sand seas at the secret Desert Temple Oasis, a monumental project is underway, the results of which have created earthquakes across Wind country and were felt as far away as Iwagakure in the north and Konohagakure in the east. Within Suna itself the villagers had already reinforced the village and its structures in anticipation of this event. Still, damage was still sustained in the village. Chusaki, with the aid of his Hare summons and the head of the Inuzuka Clan, Sunauto, but up barriers to deflect the onslaught of the sand Tsunami that raced across the land to strike the village.
Mizuiro◊ Kirotemaru was thankfully unharmed and able to assist his neighbors who were less fortunate during the earth quake and after shocks while Bacquerel maintained his analytic aloofness keeping to his information and observational career path. The Grand Libraries Archivist, Yomi was on hand to save the head librarian, Kasigi Yabu and saw him safely out of the shaking building and to his home. The library did sustain some minor damage as did portions of the great walls and several homes in the area. Fortunately no fatalities occurred. Afterward, one of those who was instrumental in securing the structural reinforcements to the walls and the village water supplies, one Shiro Mori, slipped out of the village virtually unnoticed. Who knows where the young puppet enthusiast will end up?
Concurrently with these events, Tanarri Nayeli is babysitting again for her siblings, young Hiro, and Hashimoto Akio and not doing a very good job. Akio was wandering around the village while Hiro and her brother Hywel were outside in the garden when the sand Tsunami and earth quake struck. This was not before Hiro was the sole witness to a strange man in black metal falling from the sky to land in the garden and get shoved into the ground a bit. Nayeli gathered Hywel and Hiro inside and is investigating the armor clad man, but Akio is still at large in Suna proper. The cliff dwelling is approximately 1/2 mile outside the village walls of Suna.